Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Patty Towl and Sheryl Hemphill (2016)

Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand,...
Beals, Fiona
2017-11-30 00:00:00
NZ J Educ Stud (2018) 53:151–153 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-017-0100-5 BOOK REVIEW Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Patty Towl and Sheryl Hemphill (2016) NZCER Press, Wellington, NZ, 280pp., ISBN: 978-1-927231-73-9. NZ$44.95 (softcover) Fiona Beals Received: 16 November 2017 / Accepted: 21 November 2017 / Published online: 30 November 2017 New Zealand Association for Research in Education 2017 With the recognition that exclusion from education, in all its forms, inevitably leads to negative life outcomes for students, this edited volume Locked out: Understand- ing and tackling school exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is a refreshing addition to the growing corpus of work on both the effects of school exclusion and on alternative approaches to school exclusion. The text is framed from the understanding that education is a right for all children recognised in the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (Article 28) and that all children have a right to be supported to have their voice heard in any decision affecting them (Article 12). By the editors framing exclusion as ﬁrst and foremost an issue of a violation of the rights of the child, the text instantly presents
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Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Patty Towl and Sheryl Hemphill (2016)

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NZ J Educ Stud (2018) 53:151–153 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40841-017-0100-5 BOOK REVIEW Locked Out: Understanding and Tackling School Exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, Edited by Patty Towl and Sheryl Hemphill (2016) NZCER Press, Wellington, NZ, 280pp., ISBN: 978-1-927231-73-9. NZ$44.95 (softcover) Fiona Beals Received: 16 November 2017 / Accepted: 21 November 2017 / Published online: 30 November 2017 New Zealand Association for Research in Education 2017 With the recognition that exclusion from education, in all its forms, inevitably leads to negative life outcomes for students, this edited volume Locked out: Understand- ing and tackling school exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand is a refreshing addition to the growing corpus of work on both the effects of school exclusion and on alternative approaches to school exclusion. The text is framed from the understanding that education is a right for all children recognised in the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (Article 28) and that all children have a right to be supported to have their voice heard in any decision affecting them (Article 12). By the editors framing exclusion as ﬁrst and foremost an issue of a violation of the rights of the child, the text instantly presents

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New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies
– Springer Journals

Published: Nov 30, 2017

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Locked out: Understanding and tackling school exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Carroll-Lind, J

Locked out: Understanding and tackling school exclusion in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand